When Dallas police found the body floating in the creek in North Dallas on Saturday, they noted its condition was "badly decomposed." Authorities have not released a cause of death or how long the body might have been floating in the creek.

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No missing person in the Dallas Police Department database matched the description of the woman found Saturday either: a black, transgender woman about 5 feet, 3 inches tall, weighing approximately 130 pounds, with no tattoos or other identifying marks.

But that official position hasn't stopped transgender advocates from connecting the two deaths on another level.

"I can't speak for everyone, but it makes us feel like our lives are disposable, at the rate we are murdered," Leslie McMurry of the Dallas Resource Center told KTVT.

"If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about how difficult life is, as a transgender woman of color, I don't know what does," McMurry said.

A kayaker reported that body Saturday evening, just over three days after Flores-Pavon was reportedly found dead inside her apartment, also in North Dallas. Police say an unknown Hispanic male was seen leaving her apartment shortly before she was found unconscious inside on May 9, apparently the victim of strangulation.

She was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after being found. Though police are calling this death a homicide, they say there is no evidence that Flores-Pavon's death was a hate crime.

Michael Christopher Wilkins was a 17-year-old transgender teen, whose chosen name was Mercedes Williamson. Her remains were found June 2, 2016 in George County, Mississippi. Josh Vallum has been charged with her murder. Margaret Baker Ashlen Renner